Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Rob Enderle

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

Steve Maviglio

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

Ken Goldstein

begin to make way for a better economy this fall.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Tom Daschle

I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened,

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

Mahmoud Abbas

Today is the beginning of the fishermen's journey to Jerusalem,

Joe Torre

Pitchers scare me to begin with. I don't know how much work pitchers have done.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

E. O. Wilson

You would have to bring that up. But now that you mention it ...

Andy Walker

You might outsource some folks and bring some up through the in-house ranks, use contractors for other roles.

Peter Stoessel

There is a respect for tradition and traditional motifs. But there are also many who bring stylized traditional forms, not just the shape, to their work.

Tom Irwin

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

Jim Curry

We're just trying to bring some rides back and bring some fun back to the community. There's not a lot going on (at the fair). Why should people have to drive to Fayette or Franklin County fairs to have fun with their kids?

Pete Carroll

Competition Tuesday tends to bring that kind of spirit out. That's how we practice. The competition really heated up. ... It was a good, hard Tuesday. This is a big day for us. We needed to knock it around a lot today and tomorrow to get ready to go.

Mark Kulda

Don't just take the first policy you find. Insurance is a very, very competitive business. Insurance companies are doing everything they can to compete for you and try to bring prices down.

Jen Kirkman

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

Glen Mathison

I don't think we're anticipating any changes in physical presence.

Jorge Posada

It was not a pretty view from my angle. The way he was pitching, the things he was doing, when he comes out of the game, it really changes everything around.

Lila Johnson

It just changes you. You think who am I really harming if it's drug or gambling money.

Uwe Andersen

It's an important symbol that the Easterners have come to power. They have a more pragmatic way of doing things and they are used to big changes in life and therefore, I think, they are not so reluctant to face up to new challenges.

Trent Green

Any time you lose a 10-time Pro Bowler, it changes things a little bit.

John Abramson

Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol,

Frederick Great

The King of England changes his ministers as often as he changes his shirts.

Matt Miksic

The departure of Mr. Miller will open the door for creating shareholder value through further changes and operating improvements at the company.

Neil Stern

A name is just a name. We have to see what the new Sears Grand format will sell and at what price. We'll have to see what the changes are.

Don Meyer

A lot of things, I think, would have to go wrong in order for this widespread civil unrest to become a reality,

Linda Miller

They know a lot before they get to it. We probably have the only second-grader in the county who knew about Stonewall Jackson in the Civil War.

Renee Asher

They have done what they set out to do ... to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

Viktor Yushchenko

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

Andrew Kohut

This important question of the trade-off of civil liberties and protection is one the public takes very seriously,

Marvin Miller

They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.

Anthony Ricco

They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.

Hosni Mubarak

It's not on the threshold (of civil war). It's pretty much started.

Michael Huttner

It's not just the progressives and the Democrats but also Libertarians and moderate Republicans who feel that private rights and civil liberties are being threatened by this administration.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Toni Sacconaghi

Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.

Maggie Mermin

Physically, she is doing beautifully. Emotionally, as well as can be expected. She gets frustrated at times, but she recognizes everyone. You can see a lot of expression in her eyes and face. She can point to pictures and words when she wants to communicate. She clearly wants to communicate. She just can't get the words out.

Bart Melek

Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.

Dipen Sanghavi

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Stephen Greene

Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.

John Skipper

Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

Scott Paluch

Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.

Richard Petersen

Part of the weakness has to do with global IT demand. This is a moderately negative signal about the tech spending outlook. But it's clearly more than just IBM.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Matt Lindsay

Everybody knew it was coming and nobody stopped it. Johnny is a heck of a a player. He made some big plays tonight.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Ernie Hartlieb

Every game is like a playoff game right now. This road trip is a grind, especially coming down the stretch. The guys have played so many games on the road already.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Drew Pearson

Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right thing.

David Leitch

He understands that this is a different kind of process, and he's committed to working through it. That doesn't necessarily mean he enjoys every part of it, or that he is taking anything for granted.

David Woolner

One of the critical things he saw was not returning to isolationism. That, he said, would lead to disaster. Roosevelt was very much committed that the U.S. play a proper role in the U.N.

Peter Wright

I was pleased with our hitting. We only struck out twice. Overall I was pleased with how we played our first game. On defense we only committed one error.

Dorne Hall

She's a pretty motivated kid. She's always trained hard, but she really trained even harder all summer, even after she'd already committed to BYU.

Holly Veloso

She's committed (and) she's got the right mental toughness for it.

Gray Davis

Should we recall a sitting governor who's committed no crime, who's not mentally incompetent and has done some very positive things over the last several years, for this other fellow about whom some doubts have been raised by some reputable papers?

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Daniel Webster

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Daniel Webster

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Ameen Rihani

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Donald Trump

We buy products for our military and they come in at costs that are so far above what they were supposed to be, because we don't have people that know what they're doing.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Dick Morris

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Deepak Chopra

If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

Dean Norris

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

Amar Bose

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Chuck Hagel

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

Chuck Hagel

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

Chuck Hagel

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Kin Hubbard

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Penelope Lively

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.